Transmission with a first-stage hydrostatic mode and two hydromechanical stages

Patent · Sun Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:863425

Weseloh, William E ^[1]

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1. San Diego, CA

A power transmission having two planetary assemblies, each having at least one carrier with planet gears, at least one sun gear, and at least one ring gear. A speed-varying module is connected in driving relation to the input shaft and in driving relationship to the sun gear or gears of the first planetary assembly. The speed-varying means may comprise a pair of hydraulic units hydraulically interconnected so that one serves as a pump while the other serves as a motor and vice versa, one of the units having a variable stroke and being connected in driving relation to the input shaft, the other unit, which may have a fixed stroke, being connected in driving relation to the sun gear. The input shaft is also connectable by a first clutch to a carrier of the first planetary assembly and by a second clutch to a sun gear of the second planetary assembly. A brake grounds the first carrier in the first range and in reverse and causes drive to be delivered to the output through a ring gear of the first planetary assembly in a hydrostatic mode. The carrier of the second planetary assembly being connected in driving relationship to that ring gear, and in all ranges these two elements transmit the drive to the output shaft.

• Research Organization: Orshansky Transmission Corp., San Diego, CA (USA)
• Assignee: Orshansky Transmission Corporation (New York, NY)
• Patent Number(s): US 4168637
• OSTI ID: 863425
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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